White Slave
Classification:
3 W-WYY[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

John Charles Williams

b 1861 d 1939

Gorran, Cornwall, England

John Charles Williams
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1907
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments overlapping; corona expanded, ribbed, pale citron yellow, shading to sulfur white at base, frilled.

A description according to the 1934 van Waveren and Sons catalog under the name of ‘Albinia’: “Much like ‘White Lady’, but a broader more heavily crinkled cup. At comparative exhibitions it outpoints ‘White Lady’ in every respect. Not as fast a propagator. As happens to often in such cases, the faster grower gets the popularity although its other qualities may be less than its slower sister.”

Synonyms:

'Albinia'

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